While this sounds like something like an Android and a science fiction movie, the fact is that the robotics sector is developing devices that are covered in human skin.

We must remember that there are already human-looking androids built into their outer structure with materials similar to human skin, such as silicone or silicone skin, as this robot “Sofia” was.

And that is why one of the most influential journals in the field of technology and robotics, called “Science Robotics”, has published about the use of human skin and texture in the development of special robotic devices.

As already mentioned, Currently robots are covered in silicone skin and other synthetic materials that are similar to human skin. But in this case, the real human skin will develop and be added to these artifacts so that they can be bent, stretched and even feel like a human.

Thanks to these innovations in robotics, people can come up with an “automatic creature” that looks exactly like a human in the movie “Ex-Machine”. But the reality is that this development must be applied to intelligent prostheses so that they can be directly implanted in people who were born without one limb, such as legs, arms or fingers, or who lost them in an accident.

Finally, the idea of ​​these projects is to perceive the sensations with the cover of these prostheses, which are ideal for people who have had some kind of amputation.

Luke Osborne, a neuroengineer and researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory of Applied Physics, notes: For example, with prostheses that connect a person. “

With the above, it is necessary to emphasize that today there are already robotic prostheses connected to the human brain in order for them to receive signals and movement commands.

However, now the next step is that these artifacts can not only move but also feel what brings a person back to a limb that he lost for some unfortunate reason.

The biggest challenge of this innovation in an hour is to connect this human skin to the neurons in the brain so that it can function as a true dermis. Discover as this is not an easy task as the skin has thousands of receptors in its various layers that are responsible for giving a sense of touch, thus being able to feel temperature, vibration, pressure or pain.

The neuroengineer concludes: “We are in an exciting time when many new things are being done with artificial leather to make them better, more intelligent and more functional. “Using the capabilities of electronic skins themselves to make robots smarter.”

The development of all these types of robotics in the service of improving the quality of medicine and human life implies that human society is increasingly approaching the possibility of improving its capabilities through technology. As they are commonly called “cyborgs”, they are people who try to increase their mental and physical abilities through artefacts.

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